For a very long time, corporations treated their corporate networks as safe protected environments. The data and applications inside that network are: confidential and must be kept safe from unauthorized access (protect from loss), and crucial to business processes and must be kept accessible to employees (protect from denial of service). Over time, however, two trends have challenged these assumptions. First, more and more business-critical data has migrated to the Internet.

Passwords are insecure and annoying. I get that, I have written about it, and I experience it. So lots of companies and organizations are working on replacing passwords with something that is both more secure and more convenient. For example, Twitter's Digits service. Other approaches, like 1Password's password manager, make passwords easier to manage and auto-generate, so they simultaneously can be more secure and more convenient. Then there are "